'Raucous' seagulls: Parisians' new noisy neighbours The first pairs of gulls arrived in Paris in the 1990s and today there are between 50-60 pairs of them, with a litter of about three young per year. But the birds' growing cacophony is ruffling many feathers in the French capital. An ornithologist has reassured Parisians that these cries will gradually cease during the month of August, with the end of the breeding period. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES